The Beats: A Graphic History
by:
Harvey Pekar (author)
Trina Robbins (author)
Nancy J. Peters (author)
Summer McClinton (author)
Joyce Brabner (author)
Anne Timmons (illustrator)
Jeffrey Lewis (illustrator)
Jerome Neukirch (illustrator)
Lance Tooks (illustrator)
Mary Fleener (illustrator)
Nick Thorkelson (illustrator)
Ed Piskor (illustrator)
Gary Dumm (illustrator)
Paul Buhle (editor)
Peter Kuper (editor)
Penelope Rosemont (editor)
Jay Kinney (editor)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780809094967 (0809094967)
Publish date: 2009-03-17
Publisher: Hill and Wang
Pages no: 208
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Biography,
History,
Poetry,
Sequential Art,
Graphic Novels,
Comics,
Graphic Novels Comics,
Comix,
Comic Book,
Graphic Non Fiction
The first 121 pages follow a clear concept, namely to explore the life of the Core-Beat poets Kerouac, Ginsberg and Burroughs. Those stories are either pretty much focused on their homoerotic sexlife or on the very basics of them moving around a lot while switching from one odd job to the next or ru...
My favorite pieces were about Kenneth Patchen & the Beat Chicks. Who knew Louise Fitzhugh illustrated a book about a little Beatnik girl(Suzuki Beane)before she wrote Harriet the Spy.
My favorite pieces were about Kenneth Patchen & the Beat Chicks. Who knew Louise Fitzhugh illustrated a book about a little Beatnik girl(Suzuki Beane)before she wrote Harriet the Spy.
The Joyce Brabner story is by far the best; the Jeffrey Lewis one about Tuli Kupferberg is also quite well done. Everything else is so dry ("he spent two years in California but then he returned to New York in July 1958" etc., etc.) that you'd be better off reading the Wikipedia articles. Also, most...
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